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Sep 2020
24m 15s

This is the future Joe Biden wants

Vox
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Trillions spent on the environment, caregiving, manufacturing, and the racial wealth gap: Vox’s Dylan Matthews explains how Biden wants to “Build Back Better.”

Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained


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